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Kate DiCamillo

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift."

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"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift."

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

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"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

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"My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!"

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"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."

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"This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died-what I call your 'spiritual security'-knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame."

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"And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way."

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"My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too."
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"I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay."
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"I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed."
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"I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading."
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"Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?"
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"Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness."
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"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children."
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"Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life."
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"I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write."
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"I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head."
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